PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The FBI is investigating a Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly activating webcams inside students’ homes, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Friday. The FBI will explore whether Lower Merion School District officials broke any federal wiretap or computer-intrusion laws, said the official, who [...]
ABC Tempe: TEMPE, AZ — Homeowner Adam Starr confirms he has chopped down a big ‘carving’ credited with turning a lot of heads in his Tempe neighborhood. And it’s now up for auction… “That’s disgusting,†said one woman. “I think it’s funny,†said another. What they’re buzzing about is an 8-foot-tall penis carving that stood [...]
AOL News: Feb. 19) — Before the flames from Joseph Stack’s suicide run at an Austin, Texas, building had been extinguished, fires broke out on the Internet over whether his attack could or should be linked to the Tea Party movement. A mere two hours after the plane struck, the liberal site Daily Kos weighed [...]
.Financial Times: Six Nato troops have been killed in Afghanistan in the worst single-day loss for international forces since the launch of a big offensive to drive Taliban insurgents from the town of Marjah. The deaths on Thursday, followed by the loss of another soldier on Friday, underscore the risks US, UK and Afghan troops [...]
Politico: James O’Keefe, the self-styled guerilla investigative journalist celebrated for his video on ACORN and arrested last month in New Orleans in an attempted expose of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, got a rock star welcome at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday. O’Keefe, 25, wasn’t scheduled to do any official events at CPAC, as [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI sought to close the book on its long, frustrating hunt for the killer behind the 2001 anthrax letters Friday, formally ending its investigation and concluding a mentally unhinged scientist was responsible for killing five people and unnerving Americans nationwide. After years of false leads, no arrests and public criticism, the [...]
Townhall: WASHINGTON — In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary [...]
Townhall: Remember “Not Me”? He was the famous invisible cartoon gremlin in the newspaper comic strip “The Family Circus.” Whenever toys were left on the floor or other school-age disasters struck, the kids in the comic pointed their fingers at “Not Me.” Today, “Tea Party” is the juvenile left’s new “Not Me” — an all-purpose [...]
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) – Days before hosting an intensive health care summit with both Republicans and Democrats, President Barack Obama made a fervent push for his overhaul, calling it critical not just for the millions without insurance but for the entire country’s economic well-being. “It is vital for our economy to change how health care [...]
CNS News: Washington – Saying that America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion ago, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said President Obama should stop blaming his predecessor and the American people for high unemployment and growing deficit and failure of the Democratic health care overhaul proposal. “When it comes to pinning the [...]
CBN: This morning, I spoke to Army CID spokesman Christopher Gray and learned more details about a possible poisoning plot that I first reported here yesterday after CBN confirmed with Patrick Jones of Fort Jackson’s Public Affairs Office and a reliable source with intimate knowledge of the investigation. Here is the latest on what we [...]
10th Amendment Center: by Walter E. Williams The Census Bureau estimates that the life cycle cost of the 2010 Census will be from $13.7 billion to $14.5 billion, making it the costliest census in the nation’s history. Suppose you suggest to a congressman that given our budget crisis, we could save some money by dispensing [...]
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Politico: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) urged conservatives Friday to fight to prevent an American “decline†created by the policies of President Barack Obama. In a long and meandering speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference evoking numerous historical references to the American Revolution and the Second World War, Bachmann said that time and again Americans [...]
News Busters: Given his past behavior, “American Idol†judge is one role that celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is certainly not fit for. But current judge Simon Cowell seems to think differently. Although the controversial Hilton is famous for his outlandish behavior and statements, and for crude and obscene drawings, somehow Cowell seems to think he [...]
